Coast to coast will launch post christmas sales this morning. Walmart and kohls stores are opening at 5 00 a. M. Today. Its hard to see any data on the shopping season, but last week, shoppertracker say retail sales drop for the week of september 16th by 3. 5 . If you skipped them off and ordered online for shipped stuff across the country, you need to know about the big oops from u. P. S. Because of bigger than expected volume, not all u. P. S. Packages that were supposed to arrive under the tree for christmas. The u. P. S. Could have blamed santa and the rain deere, but its owning up to the mistake. Natalie goodwin says, quote, the volume of air packages in our system exceeded the capacity in our network as demand was much greater than the forecast. We apologize to both shipping and receiving customers who may have dlaid delays. While with him not have drivers delivering on christmas, we will have employees prepping packages and the planes on take off sh s thursday morning. The nice
Authority in the system of government that we have. We believe these are based on science. Both new york and new jersey have impose mandatory quarantines. A fiveyearold boy who recently right in the west from west africa has tested negative for ebola. The boy had been admitted to a New York Hospital with a fever. Oil prices keep falling. West texas intermediate trading below 80 a barrel. Goldman sachs cut its price projections. We will find out tomorrow morning when the government releases its latest data. Oil has dropped 21 from its peak in june. When opec meets late next month, it is a likely to cut production to prop up the price, which brings us to our twitter question of the day twitter is starting to panic. The number of active members on Twitter Group in the Third Quarter, but at a slower rate. Bloombergy ceo tells the companys number one priority is adding users. The companys losses increase. Shares of twitter down as much as 12 in the premarket. The ceo and the cfo have been r
In france. Hello. Armed separatists in the eastern ukrainian city of luhansk have reportedly been making fresh advances. Six separatists and 11 ukranian soldiers are known to have died. Many civilians are leaving. They are in control of a guard base and border guard post which ukranian forces were forced to abandon. Western leaders are threatening russia with more sanctions. David chater has this update from luhansk. Reporter the fact that the separatist fighters overran this border base after a fierce firefight is not just a humiliating defeat for kiev and their antiterror operation, it has strategic consequences. This is the base, the headquarters where they control and coordinate the russian border crossings, where they communicate with the border posts, which are emptying, and have no way of communicating with the border guards. That means a large blind spot is opening up on the russian border. It means the people in kiev, the government in kiev, the Security Services no longer hav
Barbara Lee Balmer, 86, of Merrill, died Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, at her home surrounded by family. Barbara Lee Balmer was born on April 15, 1936, in Estherville, to Lyle Boyd and Kathryn Emma (Manthey).